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Short answer
A Canadian property records search retrieves title particulars, registered owners, mortgages, charges, and transfer history from provincial land title registries. British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec permit search by owner name; Ontario indexes by property only, so name-to-property in Ontario requires inference or manual research.
Draws on 4 record sources, each named below with the statutory basis we rely on. See the list.
Asking who owns a given address is easy everywhere in Canada — every land registry supports it. Asking which properties a given person owns is easy in British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec, and effectively impossible to do directly in Ontario. Nearly every disappointed expectation in Canadian property research traces back to conflating those two questions.
The parcel identifier and legal description, the registered owners as of the search date, registered mortgages and their lenders, easements and covenants, liens, and the transfer history with consideration amounts. Consideration is genuinely useful: it establishes what was paid and when, which supports a valuation argument in a family law or judgment enforcement context.
When owner-name search is unavailable, you infer. Corporate registered offices frequently are residential addresses. PPSA registrations naming a mortgagee point at the lender and often the property. Litigation filings and construction liens name addresses. Municipal assessment rolls are inspectable. Obituaries name family homes. None of these is a substitute for a registry index, and used together they usually get there — which is manual work, and why it sits in the Deep Research tier.
What you receive
Honest limits
Every item here is a structural limit of the Canadian record, not a paywall. Anyone promising you these is either misrepresenting what they have or describing something unlawful.
4 connectors
Each source carries the paragraph of the Regulations Specifying Publicly Available Information that permits collecting from it without the subject's consent.
LTSA
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 15.00 CAD per search
Service Alberta
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 10.00 CAD per search
Gouvernement du Québec
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 1.00 CAD per search
Teranet / ServiceOntario
Lawful basisStatutory public registrySOR/2001-7(c)
Paid account · 35.00 CAD per search
Figures
| Measure | Value | Source | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical Canadian land title search fee per parcel | $10–$35 | Provincial land title authorities | 2026 |
Questions
Yes, in every province. Land title registries are public and searchable by address or parcel identifier, and the registered owner is disclosed. Fees vary by province, typically ten to thirty-five dollars per parcel. This is the easy direction of a property search.
In British Columbia, Alberta, and Québec, yes — those registries support owner-name search for account holders. In Ontario you cannot: the registry is indexed by property, so there is no way to ask which properties a person owns. Ontario holdings have to be inferred from corporate filings, mortgage registrations, litigation, and assessment records.
Usually yes. Transfer instruments record the consideration, so the purchase price and date are typically visible in the transfer history. That makes a title search useful for establishing a value baseline, though it reflects the price at transfer rather than current market value.
No. The registry shows that a mortgage is registered, who the lender is, and the original principal where stated. It does not show the current balance, because payments are not registered. Equity therefore has to be estimated rather than read off the title.
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